Category: What Now?

Today may have been perfect if not for this.

The Dental Saga: Operation Healing

~ JodiLea

I was never able to take a nap. Before I knew it, it was 8:30 pm and hubby went to bed. The first thing I did was take out the dentures – they were fixed in with denture goop. I rinsed them with warm salt water to loosen the grip before pulling them off my gums.

.The goop had helped the dentures stay in place. Unfortunately, it adhered to my gums enough to pull out stitches. Note to self – use less goop!

After a late dinner, I suddenly got hit with a chocolate craving. As an experiment, I took 2 Hersey’s kisses (melted), 1 tbsp of vanilla ice cream, and 1 tbsp of vanilla yogurt, and put them into a plastic glass. I microwaved all for 9 seconds, stirred, and nuked it for another 9 seconds. Stir and voila! It’s not fancy French or Swiss chocolate, but it was yummy enough for me at this point.

I got some great advice today – “Just take your pain meds and sleep until you’re better.” I plan to take that advice this weekend.

TTFN

The Dental Saga: Facing the Truth

~ JodiLea

I ran out of pain meds last night.

  • Unfortunately, that situation coincided with 3 other situations that I was forced to face.
    • 1. The sock-monkey look is gone. The swelling is much less now, so when I take the dentures out at night my entire face caves in. The thought of hubby seeing me like that makes me want to cry. So I brought out one of my prettiest COVID masks to wear when he is not sleeping.
    • 2. I can’t get the dentures into my mouth right and this is very painful. At my appointment with Doc today, I want him to watch me do it and verify they are in correctly. I am not putting them in so I
    • 3. 400 mg of Advil is doing nothing for the pain. I am quickly turning into the nasty old troll I resemble. I have to refrain from growling at my hubby, who after I told him the Rx was ready for pickup, completely went back to his puzzle. After 20 minutes, I asked him to go to the pharmacy. “Now?” he asks. “I was going to do the errands while you were in your appointment.” He’s getting better about reading me. He decided to run to the pharmacy now and drop off paperwork at the Sherrif’s station on the way back.

OK. I took a pain pill with my “lunch” and now I am going to try and sleep for an hour before I have to get dressed and go to the appointment. The Surgeon prescribed 12 pills (3 days worth). Monday I may have to look for a dealer all over again.

Sigh… The nap never happened and now off I go to Doc’s office. Stay tuned

Doc looked around my mouth and said to continue on as best I could. He and his assistant gave me their cell phone #’s so I could text them If I needed them this weekend. Not only did Doc show me how to put the dentures in, but he addressed the emotional side of all this sudden change. I was reacting to things (Like wearing a mask at home to hide my appearance from hubby, the grumpy, grieving, and emotional behavior that I was dealing with was completely normal and to be expected.

Get that, I’m behaving normally. Never expected that!

TTFN

The Dental Saga: 3 Days blurred

~ JodiLea

The next three days are lost time for me. I slept most of the time. I had no appetite. When Pain woke me, I would test my blood sugar, drink Glucerna and take antibiotics and pain pills. I was this robot programmed to heal and drink protein.

I realized that I missed my daughter’s birthday. It was the day after my surgery. I meant to touch base and finish things up before D-Day, but not all I wanted to do got done. So, no call from her mom before or after the big day. I know she understands, but I still feel bad.

Another thing I feel bad about is my hubby is HATING doing the “woman’s work” for me. You know, cleaning the kitchen, cooking, cleaning the kitchen again. The thing I feel bad about is that I am enjoying ignoring dishes, trash, recycle lying around the kitchen, waiting for someone to deal with them. Someone that is not me. Not this week.

I’m totally not into cooking. I love hubby, but he can fix his own food for a while. Nobody is cooking for me, except those people who make Glucerna and Premier Protein. I will try to refrain from whining about the liquid diet and be grateful I live in the age of smoothies and protein drinks.

TTFN